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Both literature (both its production and the critical study of it) and philosophy as disciplines have often been seen (sometimes by each other) as embodying either strange fruitlessness or compelling necessity—sometimes both. As early as Plato’s Ion, literary works and their authors were cast as divinely inspired, but wayward, uninformed by craft, and useless for the serious business of life. As early as Aristophanes’ Clouds, philosophy is seen as comically pretentious and ridiculous. With the steady separation of modern science from natural philosophy since the seventeenth century, this impression of philosophy as comical has only widened.
